Operating-table.



G. R. DE NIS'E. OPERATING TABLE. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 3,1907.

Patented Mar-23, 1909.

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GEORGE DE NI SE, OF DENVER, COLORADO;

OPEB'ATIN G TABI E.

Spcifieation'of Letters Patent.

Patented March 23, 1909.

Application filed. July 3, 1907. Serial No. 382,093.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. DE NISE, citizenof the United States ofAmerica, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State ofColorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in OperatingTables, of which the following is a specificat1on.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements inoperating tables, and its object is to provide a table adapted for theuse of physicians, surgeons and osteopaths, in which simplicity ofconstruction is combined with strength, durability and practicability inuse, which renders each portion of the body of the patient recliningupon its surface, accessible to the operator, and which is provided withan adjustable bench for the purpose of facilitating the performance ofcertain operations and manipulations upon the patients body, as willhereinafter be de scribed. I attain these objects by the mechanismillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in the various views of whichlike parts are similarly designated and in which-- Figure l represents aside elevation of the operating table. Fig. 2 a plan view thereof, thedetachable top-portions being omitted, Fig. 3 a vertical, transversesection taken along a line 3-3, Fig. 1, Fig. 4-- an enlargedfragmentary, longitudinal section through the upper portion of thetable, showing the position of the slidable top-sections, Fig. 5- aperspective view of one of the latter, and Fig. 6 a perspective view ofthe adjustable step or platform used in performing certain operationsand manipulatlons.

My operatin' table is composed of four, vertical, paral el, rectangular,supporting frames 2, connected by two horizontally disposed, rectangularframes 3, which are secured upon the outer surface of the perpendicularportions of the frames 2, intermediate their upper and lower ends, bybolts or rivets 4.

Slidably mounted, intermediate of, and upon each pair of the parallelupper portions 2 of the frames 2, are the top sections or slides 5,shown in detail in Fig. 5, which collectivel provide a horizontalsurface upon which the patient reclines while undergoing an operation.Each section is composed of a rectangular frame 5 preferably made ofangle iron, in which is secured a correspondingly shaped board 5", whichmay be covered 'upon those parts of the by a sheet 5 of rubber, felt, orother flexible material. When placed upon the frames 2 of the structure,the horizontal flanges of the frames 5, engage the upper surfaces of theparallel upper members 2 of the sup orting frames, so as to be slidablein a latera direction.

To adapt the table for use in operations in the performance of which theremovable sections are not needed, I provide a top 6, upholstered likethe tops of operating tables now in common use, and provided with adepending flange 6, formed to surround the upper ortions of thesupporting frames 2, of the tahle.

The vertical portions 2, of the frames 2 are provided with a pluralityof inwardly extending bolts or pins 7, which, in practice, are employedto support a step or bench 8, by means of which the )erson who performsthe operation or manipu ation upon the body of the patient reclining uon the table, may raise himself so as to be ab e to reach over thereclining person, or, as is required in-many osteopathlc treatments, toreach a position from where he can exert the maximum force patients bodywhich he desires to manipulate.

The step 8 is composed of two parallel, angularly bent bars 8*, the, inpractice, upwardly ranging ortions 8 of which terminate in outward yextending horns 8, while their, in practice, horizontal parts 8 are0011- nected by a plurality of parallel bars 9, which together form thesupporting platform upon which the operator stands. The portions 8 ofthe angular bars 8 are connected, in proximity to the latters bends,with a bar 10, whose extremities 10 extend beyond the said portions, inparallel relation to the horns 8. To place the step in position on thetable, the bars 8 are projected from the outside, in between thevertical members of two of the equidistantly arranged frames 2, comrisedin the table structure, after which the horns are brought in engagementwith two of the pins or bolts 7 of equal elevation, While theextremities 10 of the connecting bar 10 are brought to bear against theouter surface of the said members to cooperatively secure the step whichwhen thus arranged, provides an adequate support for the operator, as isillustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, of the drawings. When the step is notin use it may be held in place upon the members 2 of the supports 2 ,bybringing its, in practice, horizontal portion in juxtaposition to thesaid members, as is shown in Fig. 3, of the drawings, in which positionit is retained by the use of a button 12, which being pivotally securedI upon one of the bars 8*, is brought in engagement with the innersurface of the adjacent support 2. l To relieve ailments by manipulationof the aflected parts, the operator by raising himself to any desiredelevation by means of the adjustable step, will be enabled to exert hisstrength in a manner most beneficial to the patient, while the slidingsections which compose the top of the table, are of great assistance toOsteopaths and physicians in rendering the entire body of the patientaccessible for examination or manipulation, and are especially adaptedfor use in surgical operations and particularly in immobilizing jointsby splints, plaster casts or stiffened bandages. Instead of beingobliged to raise the atients body by any of the various mechanical meansheretofore employed to the discomfort of both the patient and thesurgeon, the latter, by removing the slide beneath the affected part isnow enabled to reach every portion of the member without disturbing theposition of the patient.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to protect byLetters Patent is 1. In combination, an operating table including aplurality of equidistant, vertical supports, and a step or bench adaptedto be secured intermediate any two adjoining supports at any one of aplurality of pro-determined elevations.

W An operating table comprising a base portion composed ofinterconnected, parallel, vertical, supporting frames and a deckcomposed of a series of successive sections laterally-slidably supportedin between and upon each two adjoining frames.

q o. In an operating table the combination with a deck of equidistant,verti wal supports having inwardly projecting bearings and a horizontalstep having opposite stops arranged to engage the outer surfaces of twoadjoining supports, and upwardly extending arms adapted tosimultaneously engage the bearings on the said supports so as to suspend the said step therefrom.

4:. An operating table comprising a base portion composed of parallel,vertical sup porting frames, connected at a distance beow their up orextremities so as to leave an unobstructei space between the same, and adeck composed of a series of successive sertions removably supportedupon the said extremities.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

GEORGE R. DE NlSl W'itnesses G. J. ROLLANDET, S. A. Sononnnne.

